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India
The Principles that have been outlined are fairly broad in the Charter of Human Responsibilities.
We hope to use these as a kernel to create the Charter that intimately speaks to us when we enter our homes and again intimately speak to us when we step into the world outside.
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Bangalore Film Society in association with Alliance Francaise de Bangalore, Svaraj, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival, Ithaca College, USA (FLEFF), Charter of Human Responsibilities, Karnataka Chalanachitra Academy, Suchitra Film Society, Federation of film societies of India (Southern Region) and YWCA presented the fourth edition of Bangalore’s biggest environmental Film Festival and (...) |
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’And I openly pledged my heart to the grave and suffering land, and often in the consecrated night, I promised to love her faithfully until death, unafraid, with her heavy burden of fatality, and never to despise a single one of her enigmas. Thus did I join myself to her with a mortal cord.’
Houlderlin, The Death of Empedocles
The image is Tibet but the story is universal. The story is of (...) |
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Pacific Asia-Research Center (Tokyo, Japan), Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (Bangalore, India) and Center for Cross-Cultural Studies, Beijing University (Beijing, China) organized the China-India-Japan Forum from 11th July to 21st July 2008 in Japan. |
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(July 5, 2008 - Indian Business Academy, Bangalore)
The discourse and practice of development are at cross roads now and contemporary processes of transformations challenge us to find new ways of understanding and nurturing development as manifold processes of human flourishing, well-being of all and planetary realizations.
In the workshop, “New Horizons of Human Development: Art, (...) |
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Introduction
Workshop Proceedings
Theme I – Philosophical Underpinnings of the Concept of Responsibility
THEME II – ‘Cultural and Professional Experiences’
Principle 1
Principle 2 & 10
Principle 3
Principle 4
Principle 5
Principle 6
Principle 7
Principle 8
Principle 9
Concluding Remarks
[introduction -] Introduction
Humankind now confronts new challenges; in particular, the (...) |
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This article is philosophical and at the same time related to present practical times. Inspired by the Charter of Human Responsibilities, Ramjan Darga has explored how ‘Basava’ in 12th Century itself emphasized on Responsibility & its practice, which are closely blend with the principles of CHR. This article was published in well known magazine & collection of essays, brought out by (...) |
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In 2007, “WIZ kids” competition involving 133,300 8 to 16 year-olds resulted in children’s own writing of the Indian Children’s Charter of Social and Environmental Responsibilities. Winners made a cultural-exchange trip to Philippines, then wrote to the President of India about the CHR. An awareness campaign was organized by 433 students and teachers. The Activ8 Foundation will use the CHR as (...) |
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reflection |
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Seminar at the World Social Forum in India, January 2004 |
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One of the leading writers and journalists in Karnataka, Ramjan Darga, (part of facilitation team and the translator of the Charter of Human Responsibilities in Kannada) has been so inspired to start writing a book on the great Indian reformist Basavanna of the 12th century.
Basavanna stood for equality for all and dreamt of a casteless society. He criticized all forms of social injustice, (...) |
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Languages, cultures and understanding
As the process of translations of the Charter texts began, the translators had difficulty in finding one-to-one equations in words and expressions that can effectively convey the sense of the Principles to the lowest common denominator among the public.
Language being culture specific, connotative meanings take precedence over denotative meanings in any (...) |
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Our objective is to manage to put into debate and help understanding the text of the Charter of Human Responsibilities in the context of the women rehabilitation and the youth, the farmers, tribal communities, NGOs, writers, journalists, professionals (data-processing engineers and managers) and any other socially active person.
For an Appropriation of the Charter
Attempt here is to first (...) |
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How do we make the Charter known to a wide section of people?
Translating the text of the Charter: the Indian subcontinent consists of a number of separate linguistic communities each of which shares a common language and culture. Contemporary languages and dialects, as they figure in the lives of most Indians, are a far cry from the stylised literary forms of Indo-Aryan or Dravidian (...) |
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In India we have initiated the programme in June 2004.
Our working team consists of :
South Asia Coordinator :
SUDHA SREENIVASA REDDY
Email: sudha_gss 7Y5 yahoo.com or sudha179 7Y5 gmail.com
Dr. JEEVAN KUMAR
Chairman, The Center for Gandhian Studies, Bangalore University
Email: jeeves0607 7Y5 yahoo.com
Mr. RAMJAN DARGA
Journalist, scholar in inter religious / interfaith subject, (...) |
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